CF-xxx vs. C-Fxxx

My favourite was flying to Chicago and being called

November Charlie Golf Mike Papa Hotel

wrote in message
ups.com...
(note
that Canada is missing the CG... probably a typo).

Not a typo. It lists C and CF as prefixes. C is the current style, and
CF the old style still on many airplanes. It gets converted to C-FXXX
upon repaint. There are no CG-XXX airplanes.
A related funny: Four of five years ago we were flying a 180 to
Tucson, via Salt Lake. Here's how the conversation went:
Us: "Salt Lake Terminal, Canadian Cessna 180 Charlie Foxtrot India
Alpha Charlie 15 miles North at 7500, Southbound for Provo."
Them: "Canadian 180 Charlia Indie Alph...." Click.
Them: "Canadian 180 Charlie Alphia Ind..." Click.
Them: "Canadian 180 Charlia Alphia..." Click.
Them: (laughter in background): "Canadian 180, stay east of the
highway."

Dan


Dan

"RV9" wrote:

There are no CG-XXX airplanes.

I beg to differ, as I currently fly a C-Gxxx plane.

C is the prefix in that case. There are no CG prefixes.

"Steven P. McNicoll" wrote:


wrote:

Not really. By having another letter, you get 25 times the number of
possible combinations. That should last for a while.

Does Canada use a 25 letter alphabet? Which one got canned?

eh? (A)

"James Robinson" wrote in message
. 97.142...
Does Canada use a 25 letter alphabet? Which one got canned?

eh? (A)

The old joke as how Canada got named. They picked 3 tiles from a Scrabble
bag; C-eh, N-eh and D, eh...

They didn't. You asked when a letter could be a number. I answered.

Jim






"Steven P. McNicoll" wrote in message
link.net...

"RST Engineering" wrote in message
...

When you count in hexadecimal. The hexadecimal digits are 0 1 2 3 4 5 6
7 8 9 A B C D E F


When did Canada begin using hexadecimal for aircraft registrations?

"RST Engineering" wrote in message
...

They didn't. You asked when a letter could be a number. I answered.


Abandoning context in the process.

("Steven P. McNicoll" wrote)
Not really. By having another letter, you get 25 times the number of
possible combinations. That should last for a while.

Does Canada use a 25 letter alphabet? Which one got canned?


Is there an n-1 thing going on here?


Montblack

In article .net,
Steven P. McNicoll wrote:

When did Canada begin using hexadecimal for aircraft registrations?

I think back in B16F.


grin

--
Garner R. Miller
ATP/CFII/MEI
Clifton Park, NY =USA=
http://www.garnermiller.com/

They didn't. You asked when a letter could be a number. I answered.

Abandoning context in the process.

Well Steven, you just done ruined my irony meter!

Jose
--
Get high on gasoline - fly an airplane.
for Email, make the obvious change in the address.

Heh...heh...heh...

Dave


On Thu, 06 Oct 2005 19:48:09 GMT, Garner Miller
wrote:

In article .net,
Steven P. McNicoll wrote:

When did Canada begin using hexadecimal for aircraft registrations?

I think back in B16F.


grin